Thursday, 7 January 2021

Butterflies in Jan 2021

The monsoon season has continued unabated. Mornings are usually cloudy with some light drizzle or heavy rain. Butterflies usually only comes out when the weather is hot and humid. Here are some of them that I managed to captured on pixel recently.

Common Nawab (Polyura athamas)


                                                                       
Common Nawab puddling on some loose soil



Rustic (Cupha erymanthis lotis)



Malayan Tailed Judy (Abisara savitri savitri)


Salt licking on a shoe print.



Great Egg-fly (Hypolimnas bolina bolina




Common Posy (Drupadia ravindra moorei) - female



Common Posy (Female) - spreading its upper wings



Common Posy (female) showing both sides of wings



Chocolate Pansy (Junonia iphita ida)

(note: photo id credit to Monsieur Liew)



Malayan Six Rings (Ypthima fasciata)

(note: photo id credit to Monsieur Liew)





According to Monsieur Liew, this is most likely a Striped Blue Crow (Euploea mulciber)



HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 !

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